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Post #953018

Author
Spaced Ranger
Parent topic
STAR WARS - Special Widescreen Edition (Technidisc) (Released)
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Date created
13-Jun-2016, 6:49 PM

Thanks for these couple of topics on the Star Wars SWSE Technidisc LD (1993), on which I was recently coming up to speed. I had been looking around and came across one that didn’t have the mint-marks of either of the 2 same-cover, FOX Video-released laserdiscs, as described at the LaserDisc Database:

LaserDisc Database: Star Wars: A New Hope (FOX) (1977) [1130-85] wrote:

Mint Marks sample

Mitsubishi (1992):
C1130-85 A 03 A20E05213
C1130-85 B 03 B20E05217
C1130-85 C 01 C20E02637
ADD M 69 D40J2175

Technidisc (1993):
#433-083278B 08/21/93K FOX VIDEO “STAR WARS” SIDE A
#433-083279B 08/21/93O FOX VIDEO “STAR WARS” SIDE B
#433-083280B 08/21/93G FOX VIDEO “STAR WARS” SIDE C

Additional Information by svenge (1) 19/10/2011
According to the OriginalTrilogy forums, the Technidisc pressing actually has a different video master that fixes the “Incredible Shrinking Ratio” problem and has less DVNR, albeit with the downside of high cross-talk levels that Technidisc was (in)famous for in their pressings…

Would there be any accounting of mint marks that don’t match these documented ones?